Patent GB-654691-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ticket receiving and cancelling machines
IPC: G07B11/09
Filed: 1948-03-24
Abstract: 654,691. Ticket-cancelling machines. BELL PUNCH CO., Ltd. March 24, 1948, No. 8707. Convention date, Jan. 28, 1948. [Class 106 (iii)] A ticket-cancelling machine comprises means for cutting the patron's stub from the ticket, a punch for perforating the ticket, means for applying the punched ticket to a spindle secured at its lower end and supported at its upper end by a retractable member and a receptacle for receiving the tickets as they are deposited on the upper end of the spindle. In one embodiment, Figs. 1, 2, 7, the machine comprises a casing 10 having frame plates 107, 108 which support a rotatable spindle 112 to which are journalled discs 110, 111. The complete ticket as initially received by the patron is inserted through an opening 13 in the front wall 14 into a ticket frame 87, Figs. 2, 9, 10, and by moving a depending finger 25 closes a switch 31, Fig. 21, in the circuit of an electric motor 20 situated in framework at the top of the housing. The motor 20 rotates a main drive shaft 23, Figs. 1, 2, through a onerevolution clutch, and a shaft 36 is rocked through a cam 50 and a cam follower 51. The shaft 36 carries spaced levers 40 to which are pivoted bell-crank levers 42 which when the shaft 36 is rocked effect downward movement of a knife 33 which co-operates with a fixed knife 32 to sever the ticket from the patron's stub. A cam 52 on the main drive shaft 23 moves a lever 54 to return the shaft 36 and the knife 33 to their original positions. A shaft 56 below the main shaft 23 is freed to be rotated counterclockwise, Figs. 2, 9, by a spring 60, Fig. 1, upon the above actuating movement of the shaft 36 and a female die 55 carried by the shaft 56 co-operates with a fixed vertical punch 73 to make a hole in the ticket 12. A cam 71 on the shaft 23 effects return of the die shaft 56 through a roller 72, an arcuate rack 65 and a pinion 64 on the shaft 56. After the hole has been made a cam 84 on the main shaft 23 effects rotation of a shaft 81 against the action of springs 83 and levers 80 carried by the shaft 81 effect a downward movement of a tubular stripper 76 secured to a cross frame 94, Figs. 2, 10. The two-part frame 87, in which the ticket is placed, is carried by guide pins 92 slidable in bushes 93 and is normally urged downwardly by springs 96. During the downward movement of the stripper 76 and the frame 94 the frame 87 is arrested by fixed stops 100 and the ticket 12 is forced by the stripper on to a vertical spindle 116. There are ten spindles 116, each secured in a socket in the disc 110 and at the upper end normally gripped by a wire spring 128, Figs. 1, 7, 17, 18, mounted on a hinged flap 120 which has a vertical part 124 and a curved part 125 which projects through an opening 127 in the disc 111 and ends in a cam surface 126. Above each flap 120 is a cup-shaped removable receptacle 134 carried by a bracket 140, Fig. 10. The side walls of the receptacle support inwardly turned springs 142 and the front and rear walls 135, 136 support inwardly turned springs 144, 150 respectively. The rear wall 136 has a slot 146 for the passage of the die 55. The arrangement is such that as the tickets are pushed on to the spindle 116 the flap 120 is eventually moved away from the spindle (see left-hand side of Fig. 2) 116 and the tickets retained in the receptacle 134 by the springs 142, 144 and 150 serve to support the upper end of the spindle located adjacent the foot of the spindle to which tickes are being applied is a lever 151, Fig. 22, which is eventually moved against a spring 153 to open the switch 155 in the motor circuit, Fig. 21. The rotatable disc assembly 110, 111 is then rotated by a hand lever 156 which carries a pawl 160 which cooperates with pins 161 on the disc 111 until the next spindle 116 is brought below the stripper 76. The pins 161 co-operate successively with a cam lever 165, Fig. 7, to ensure that the spindle is correctly positioned. If the arm 156 is not moved far enough the switch 174 opens the motor circuit. As a spindle 116 approaches the operating position a pin 131, Figs. 7, 18, engages the cam surface 126 and the associated flap 120 is restored to its horizontal spindle supporting position and the spindle 116 is moved by a bracket 129 into engagement with the spring 128. Upon opening of the motor circuit by the lever 151 as described above an auxiliary circuit to the motor may be closed by depressing a button 180, Fig. 21, and a further ticket may then be deposited on the spindle. In another embodiment, Figs. 23-26 (not shown), a single cup-shaped receptacle is provided at the operating position instead of separate receptacles for each spindle. The left side wall of the receptacle in this case must be slotted to allow for the passage of a spindle into the receptacle and the right side wall must be hinged to allow of removal of the spindle and the tickets thereon. The upper ends of the spindles 116 not in the working position are, in this case, supported between two concentric rings. Specification 654,714 is referred to.